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DARMAN: Your biggest savings proposal is called "prevent tax avoidance by foreign corporations." You estimate $45 billion from that. Now, I'd like to know how it is possible. Clinton's numbers would be laughed out of court. They're a sham. They...
Perhaps the Council doesn't have confidence in its future members to let them engage in the volatile business of campaigning. Or perhaps they fear their current positions, gained in these same sham elections, might be torn from them by candidates more suited to a longer, more comprehensive campaign...
...Democrats' interest in Black Americans is "the biggest sham in the modern history of the country," says Kentucky delegate Al Brown, pausing to cheer for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp. "The Democratic party has no greater love for African-Americans than does the Republican party. However, they have given all of the lip service, all of the unworkable social programs...
Though Girard says she "would do whatever I could to fulfill my responsibilities in an emergency situation," she is uneasy about her part. "Is it a sham," she asks, "for me to participate in this and give other people confidence that there is a system in place that will work, when in my heart of hearts, in the dark of night, I doubt it will work...
...anniversary, saw a spate of them, prettily illustrated and saying roughly the same thing: it may be an odd marriage, but it works for them. What a difference a year can make. Now there are three new biographies of Diana, all claiming the union is dead, a disaster, a sham. And as usual, woe is what sells. Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story (Simon & Schuster; $22) tops the best-seller lists; Lady Colin Campbell's Diana in Private: The Princess Nobody Knows (St. Martin's Press; $19.95) and Nicholas Davies' Diana: A Princess and Her Troubled Marriage (Birch Lane...